Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Numbers 30 & 31; Mark 9

My heart this morning is burdened. Sounds like such an dramatic word and yet what comes to mind. Walked w/a gal yesterday and it's always good, we being so much alike. So maybe that's dangerous and contributes to the heaviness I feel?
I have a group of women in my life that light me up and a group that years of contact with no connection leaves me confused. I am confused more than clear and that's making me even more confused and with an urgency that is even more confusing. Being a mess except right here, alone......in Your Word. Not I would imagine what You have planned for me or any of us? Or is it? Here I am wounded and weak, tearful and soft........seeking always seeking a direction and never taking a step or appearing to. See just a freakin mess with hopes and dreams lurking always at the edge of my consciousness threatening to make me even weirder than i already feel.
I look at the disciples and see a group of men so committed to following wherever it was you led them, what is stopping me? Being found out, discovered at being without gift or talent....just a mess of dreams and hopes that only You can bring to fruition. Worthless and yet an heir to Your kingdom, tell me how that makes sense?

Numbers 30: 1-2 Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the People of Israel: "This is what God commands: When a man makes a vow to God or binds himself by an oath to do something, he must not break his word; he must do exactly what he has said.

This is what the 'I will's' in my life are doing to me, why I won't 'i will' something that frightens me or threatens to expose my absolute dependence on needing Your help or heaven forbid the help of others. I want easy Abba and nothing in this journey is easy...

Mark 8: 23 Jesus said, "If? There are no 'ifs' among believers. Anything can happen."

24 No sooner were the words out of his mouth than the father cried, "Then I believe. Help me with my doubts!"

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Aspirations for the here and now:

  • Ask way more questions than offer answers.
  • Be more spontaneous and outrageous, loving with an abandon that isn't about me.
  • Be who I am even if she is crazy and weird
  • Do a good deed for a stranger
  • Don't be afraid to dream
  • Enjoy more sunrises.
  • Enjoy my husband and family.
  • Everyone has a story, listen to them.
  • Find a dreaming friend
  • Go on a picnic with Dan
  • Go snorkeling again.
  • Hear You
  • Help someone
  • Hike/walk regularly
  • Learn to live more and more SIMPLE
  • Learn to live without 'blinking'
  • Learn to love, really love
  • Learn to say I'm sorry w/o a 'but'
  • Learn to, strive to, be 'other' centered
  • Learn what it is to BE a friend
  • Lose 20 more pounds and take another trip to LA
  • Love, love, love on my Grandkids
  • Make a new friend
  • Read MORE books, make the time to read
  • Take alot of photos and learn how to take better ones and share better the ones I take.

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